Word: goetze
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Augustus Goetz, 56, playwright, collaborator with his wife Ruth since their marriage (in 1930) on adaptations (Andre Gide's The Immoralist, Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie, and, most successfully, The Heiress from Henry James's Washington Square); of a heart ailment, after long illness; in Manhattan...
...Hidden River (adapted from Storm Jameson's novel by Ruth and Augustus Goetz) is a split-level kind of play. Laid in France in 1950, it is partly a mystery piece over who informed on a young Resistance fighter in World War II, partly a moral inquest into types of French behavior under the Nazis. The dead man's vengeance-crying mother will not rest till she has found his betrayer; simultaneously, the playwrights set up a kind of hearing-not just for outright heroes and traitors, but for one Frenchman with a certain tolerance of Germans during...
...Roberts' slowly growing collection of hot fans, his own success seems adequate denial of his own most cherished belief: that pitching is essentially a simple art. "Anything is simple to an artist," snorts Umpire Larry Goetz. "For the rest of us," echoes Outfielder Ashburn, "there must be more, or everybody would bat .400 and win 20 games a year." But Robin Roberts insists that it is all much simpler than that: "I've been given credit for stuff I don't do. I don't even divide people into the tough and easy...
...only near-tally in the Eliot-Leverett tie came when the Elephants pushed to Leverett's four-yard line. Lew Goetz caught a pass in the end zone, but two offside penalties invalidated the pass and a 15-yard penalty for "unsportsman-like conduct" forced Eliot back to the Bunny...
...Goetz believes that "we have only touched the fringes" of the giraffe problem. Next time he goes on safari, he will be equipped with better apparatus. When giraffes are fully understood, he hopes, something constructive can be done for human jet-plane pilots, who suffer from the changes of blood pressure that giraffes avoid...